Jeremy Sisto

With film roles ranging from his portrayal of a psychotic satanic killer (Hideaway [1995]) to Jesus (1999), one would not be hard-pressed to give actor Jeremy Sisto the credit of having a fairly impressive range of dramatic abilities. Born in Northern California, Sisto spent his early years living in the rock-built home his parents had made in the lower Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sisto would gain his earliest experiences as an actor after moving to Chicago with his mother and sister (Reedy Gibbs and Meadow Sisto, also actors) at the age of six. Jeremy and Meadow's turn as specters in the Goodman Theater's adaptation of Tennessee William's House Not Meant to Stand earned the young thespians positive notice, and led to theater work with such other Windy City institutions as the Absolute Theater Company and the Cherry Street Theater. After constant auditioning and small roles in commercials and industrial films, Sisto's breakthrough came with his being cast in Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) after a deceptively discouraging audition. Returning to Chicago to finish school after wrapping up Grand Canyon in Los Angeles, Sisto constantly auditioned and played small roles in theater and independent films before moving to L.A. and finding roles in Clueless (1995) and White Squall (1996). A busy actor in the later '90s, Sisto appeared in the infamous Don's Plum (1998) before his role in the television mini-series The 60s and Jesus (both 1999). The next year Sisto would follow-up as a troubled young filmmaker coming to grips with the death of his wife in This Space Between Us, and with Angel Eyes, a mysterious tale of fate and urban isolation starring Jennifer Lopez.Subsequent roles in Lucky McKee's well-received feature debut May, the popular backwoods slasher flick Wrong Turn, and the 2004 horrorcomedy Dead and Breakfast served well to increase Sisto's street credibility among genre buffs, but when he wasn't running from inbred killers in the forest or falling under the spell of mentally disturbed waifs, Sisto was gaining positive notice for his role as a delusional man who believes his life is the subject of a film in Movie Hero, and returning to the small screen in shows like the hit crime drama Law & Order or the ABC comedy Suburgatory.

QUOTES FROM Jeremy Sisto CHARACTERS

I can't find my Cranberries CD, I gotta go to the quad before somebody snags it.

Chef Henri

dis is not your ome

Chef Henri

Dis is not your ome.

Christian

It's home

Chef Henri

Ome.....

Chef Henri

Ome.

Christian

HHHHHome

Christian

Home.

Christian

If I got my ass kicked like that every day I'd be eating these things like....well pez.

Christian

If I got my ass kicked like that every day I'd be eating these things like, well Pez.

Adam

So what do you do, May?

May Canady

I work at the animal hospital...And I sew.

May Canady

I work at the animal hospital. And I sew.

Adam

Okay...Animal hospital.

Adam

Okay. Animal hospital.

May Canady

Some people think it's kind of gross.

Adam

I love gross.

May Canady

Really?

Adam

Mm-hmm. Disgust me, please.

May Canady

Okay. A couple of weeks ago, and old man comes in, and says his dog is dying. And he begs us to save it. A 90-pound black lad named Seymour. We take him in and run some tests, and find that he has a twisted bowel, and needs to be operated on immediately. So we shave Seymour's tummy, we cut him open, and take out a piece of intestine about - about the size of a hot dog. Everything went smooth, but... when we went to sew Seymour back up, we realized we were out of the heavy sutures your supposed to use for large dogs. So the doctor decided that if we tripled up on cat sutures, that should do the trick. Well... a few days go by, and the old man calls up hysterical. The sutures had burst while he was at work, and by the time he got home, Seymour was sprawled out on the back porch with his guts spread all over the concrete, and the fence was soaked in blood all around the yard. It was a mess [Adam stares in disgust] ...I had to sew that one back up.

May Canady

Okay. A couple of weeks ago, and old man comes in, and says his dog is dying. And he begs us to save it. A 90-pound black lad named Seymour. We take him in and run some tests, and find that he has a twisted bowel, and needs to be operated on immediately. So we shave Seymour's tummy, we cut him open, and take out a piece of intestine about - about the size of a hot dog. Everything went smooth, but when we went to sew Seymour back up, we realized we were out of the heavy sutures your supposed to use for large dogs. So the doctor decided that if we tripled up on cat sutures, that should do the trick. Well, a few days go by, and the old man calls up hysterical. The sutures had burst while he was at work, and by the time he got home, Seymour was sprawled out on the back porch with his guts spread all over the concrete, and the fence was soaked in blood all around the yard. It was a mess [Adam stares in disgust] I had to sew that one back up.

Adam

There's an Argenta playing at the Beverly in 15 minutes. I took the afternoon off. They're showing "Trauma."

Adam

There's an Argenta playing at the Beverly in 15 minutes. I took the afternoon off. They're showing 'Trauma.'

May Canady

Is that a movie?

Adam

You've never seen "Trauma"?!

Adam

You've never seen 'Trauma'?!

Adam

Whatcha reading about?

May Canady

Amputation.

Adam

Is that for work?

May Canady

Nope. It's just for fun.

Adam

Does this stuff freak you out?

May Canady

Nothing freaks me out.

Adam

That's right, it wouldn't, would it? (Adam pulls out a fake knife) ...You're on to me...I'm a psycho.

Adam

That's right, it wouldn't, would it? (Adam pulls out a fake knife) You're on to me. I'm a psycho.

(opens his front door and sees May standing there) - May, you scared the hell out of me! ...What are you doing out here?

Adam

(opens his front door and sees May standing there) - May, you scared the hell out of me! What are you doing out here?

May Canady

Nothing.

Adam

How long have you been standing out here?

May Canady

Since about 2:00.

Adam

You haven't really been standing out here for two hours, have you?

May Canady

(smiles) - What do you think?

May Canady

You don't think I'm weird?

Adam

I do think you're weird.

May Canady

I knew that.

Adam

I like weird. I like weird a lot.

Adam

(May tries kissing him, but she gets too rough and Adam backs off) - Whoa! Jesus Christ! Who taught you how to kiss?

May Canady

(referring to her doll) - Suzie.

Adam

(after showing May his student made horror film) - So, what did you think?

May Canady

It was sweet...

May Canady

It was sweet.

Adam

It was sweet?

May Canady

I don't think she could've got his finger off in one bite, though. That part seemed a little far-fetched.

Adam

(while kissing May for the first time, she bites his lip) - Owe! God damn it! (Adam looks around her room and sees May's weird doll) ...What the fu*k is that? (he then notices his lip is bleeding) ...Oh, fu*k, I'm bleeding.

May Canady

I know. [May begins sexually wiping Adams blood on her body]

Adam

(weirded out by May's action) - May, what are you doing? ...Please. I need a towel. [May just smiles at him, still wiping his blood on her] ...I think...I think I'm gonna go.

Adam

(weirded out by May's action) - May, what are you doing? Please. I need a towel. [May just smiles at him, still wiping his blood on her] I think, I think I'm gonna go.

May Canady

What?

Adam

I'll see you around.

May Canady

(referring to Adams student horror film) - But it's just like your movie.

Adam

May, this is weird.

May Canady

(smiles) - You like weird.

Adam

(looks at her disgusted) - Not that weird. [Adam walks out of her room]